Petee toglio



(No Model.)

- P. TOGLIO. MANUFACTURE OF IMITATION BRICK WEATHER BOARDING.

Patented May 19,1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER TOGLIO, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

MANUFACTURE OF IMlTATlON BRICK WEATHER-BOARDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,054, dated May 19,1885.

Application filed October 24, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER TOGLIO, a citizen of the United States,residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of SouthCarolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theManufacture of Imitation Brick eather-Boarding; and I hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as willenable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, and to the letters and figures of referencemarked thereon.

Figure l is a sectional plan view of a corner of a house having myimitation brick weather-boarding, and showing the application oftheimproved cornerstrip. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is across-section through four corner-strips, showing the method ofmanufacturing them. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the same.

My invention relates to imitation brick weather-boarding for framehouses, for which Letters'Patent No. 296,647 were granted to me on April8, 1884; and it consists in the method of manufacturing the same, ashereinafter fully described and claimed, whereby the cost of productionis greatly reduced and the appearance at the same time much improved.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference where usedin the different figures indicate corresponding parts.

A is a cornerstrip, forming an element in my imitation brick weatherboarding, provided with grooves a upon its surface, corresponding inposition with the joints of brickwork which they simulate. In order tomanufacture these corner-strips A cheaply and with as little loss ofmaterial as possible, I take a piece of lumber, of any desired length,and turn it in a lathe, forming of it a long round bar having thegrooves a thereon, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. This bar is then dividedequally through the center into four sections, each of which can then beused as a corner-strip, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2'.

B are weather-boards, tongued and grooved together in the ordinarymanner, and provided with additional grooves, b, on theirsurface,corresponding in position with the joints in brick-work. WVhenthe weather-boarding x has been brought to the desired form, either ofcorner-strips or plain or ornamental boards, and having the additionalgrooves on its surface, it is treated with a coat of priming-paint. Thismay be applied with a brush, or the weather-boarding may be dipped in avat filled with such priming-paint of the. desired color, the objectbeing to thoroughly coat the bottom of the additional grooves in theweatherboarding and give them the appearance of cement or mortar joints,as well as to apply a priming-coat to the surface between said grooves.\Vhen the primingpainthas become sufficiently dry, another coat ofpaint, of any desired color, is applied to the surface of the weatherboarding between the additional grooves, so as to give it the appearanceof brick. This coat of paint is of different color from the primingcoatwhich covers the bottom of the grooves. In order that none of it shallenter the said grooves and spoil the effect of the work when finished,it is laid on with a roller instead of with a brush. A rubher-coatedroller is used similar to that used by printers for covering type withink, preference being giving to one having a reservoir for the paintattached to it, with means for spreading it in a thin even coat over thesurface of the roller. By revolving such a roller on the surface of theweather-boarding, the paint is transferred in an even coat with moredispatch than it could be done with a brush, and without any of itentering the additional grooves. By using separate rollers anddifferent-colored paint, the weather-boarding can be blocked off inimitation of alternating courses of red and yellow bricks, or otherwiseornamented by introducing ornamental patterns, and thereby relieving themonotonous appearance of a large extent of brick-work.

When the cornerstrips'A are used, it is not necessary to bevel the endsof the weatherboards, as described in my former specification. Thesquare ends of the weather-boards B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, form ajoint with the corner-strip A when attached to the framing of a housewhich is sufficiently weathertight for most situations.

ers the bottom of the said grooves and gives them the appearance ofmortar or cement joints, and then applying a thin and even coat of paintto the surface of the weather'boarding between the said grooves byrevolving thereupon a roller supplied with paint, so that the saidintervening surface is given the appearance of brick, substantially asdescribed.

2. As an article of manufacture, the cornerstrip A, formingsubstantially the sector of a circle in cross-section, and provided withthe grooves a upon its circumferential surface, treated in imitation ofbrick-work by the process hereinbefore described and set forth.

PETER 'IOGLIO.

Witnesses;

WM. L. FREELAND, E. E. HEwEs.

